Street Talk: An Expensive Habit
July 20, 2010
In New York City, a pack of cigarettes is now selling for approximately $11, raised from its previous cost. We asked local residents if they thought it was fair that smokers continue to get hit by these tax increases.
Read More »Summer Farmers Markets
July 20, 2010
It’s farmers market season!
Read More »White House “Drug Czar” Visits The Mary Mitchell Center
June 22, 2010
The director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy visited the Mary Mitchell Center in Crotona on June 7 to officially launch a new nationwide anti-drug youth campaign.
Read More »St. Barnabas Residents Vote to Unionize
June 22, 2010
Is St. Barnabas Hospital’s bitter and long-lasting dispute with its resident doctors finally over? It could be. Earlier this month, the National Labor Relations Board announced that residents voted almost unanimously to form a union.
Read More »C.S. 211 Students Harvest Their Own Vegetable Garden
June 22, 2010
Students at C.S. 211 on Prospect Avenue held a “harvest festival” on June 9, picking the vegetables and herbs they’ve been growing themselves since April and turning them into healthy meals and snacks.
Read More »Doctors Union Fights Hospital Over Parking Garage
May 27, 2010
For more than a year, CIR/SEIU Healthcare has been engaged in a protracted legal battle with St. Barnabas Hospital, which is refusing to allow resident doctors to unionize. Now the union is upping the stakes.
Read More »For Tenants in Foreclosure Limbo, a New Legal Strategy
May 25, 2010
Legal Services-NYC Bronx has filed a legal motion on behalf of the tenants in ten of Milbank’s properties, attempting to hold Wells Fargo, the bank that oversees the huge trust that contains these Milbank mortgages, or the trust’s special servicer, a company called LNR Property Group, financially responsible for the maintenance of the buildings.
Read More »Fordham Walkers ‘Go Green’
May 25, 2010
More than 1,000 people attended the Fordham Road Business Improvement District’s “Go Green Walk,” which was designed to promote healthy living in the Bronx.
Read More »PS/MS 3 Students Win Grant to Beautify Park
May 25, 2010
A group of students at PS/MS 3 are making headway in their efforts to transform a park near their school–five acres of scrappy fields at East 181st Street between Quarry Road and Hughes Avenue.
Read More »Presence of Herring Suggests a Healthier Bronx River
April 20, 2010
Volunteers from the Bronx River Alliance netted an alewife herring in River Park, near 180th Street in West Farms. The finding marks the second year in a row the species has been spotted in the waterway since as far back as the 1600s.
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